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Today Microsoft unveiled RoboChamps (www.robochamps.com), a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers from around the world, that demonstrates the power of the Microsoft platform to enable a broad range of developers to explore new ways to use .NET for robotics programming.

RoboChamps is built on top of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio(MSRDS) 2008 CTP, and uses that product’s robust, physics enabled simulation environment to remove the barriers of entry that exist for many today. This simulated league provides individuals with immersive 3-d environments, simulated versions of robots, and compelling scenario-specific challenges where they can win real robots.  This is for everyone, including, professional, hobbyist, and academic developers.

The focus of the contest is robotics and Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (and its underlying technologies of CCR/DSS), but I also want to point out that the infrastructure uses a fair amount of Microsoft technologies – Silverlight 2.0, ASP.NET 3.5, WCF (REST and MTOM services), Linq, LiveID, Silverlight Streaming, .NET Framework 3.5, VS 2008, Expression Blend, IIS and Expression Encoder. The site also generates its own API keys so developers can compete and have their code tie into the site’s services, provides community with ‘robocards- rich SL cards that are exposed to be readily consumable on blogs, websites or third-party networks like Facebook. Advertising also plays a big role with sponsorship, ‘in world’ ads with Massive! So in essence, this is for everyone! This is very cool...you could easily get started as most of them are familiar technologies!

 

More information:

Website – www.RoboChamps.com

Channel 9 video – https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=399952

.NET Rocks Podcast – https://perseus.franklins.net/dotnetrocks_0336_marc_mercuri.wma

On10.net video – https://www.on10.net/blogs/tina/Robo-Champs-My-robot-is-bigger-then-your-robot/

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